Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16790, Matthew Farmer, Va.

SERVICE
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Va.
Farmer, Matthew
S 16790
Carded
CONTENTS

20 Missouri 2841 Virginia
Matthew Farmer
Franklin Co in the State of Virginia who was a Sgt of Spn in the Company commanded by Captain Th: Pace of the Regt commanded by Col: Fleming in the Virginia Militia time for 42 months from 1793
inscribed on the Roll of Virginia the rate of 25 Dollars — Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 day of Dec. 1832 and also No. 176 Columbus H. R.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 37 50 Semi-annual allowance ending 11 March 1833 12 50
$ 50 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester Clerk
Book 20 Vol. 7 Page 97 6 — 8 — 81

On Tra: bir. 6: Oct. 1834
Transf: to Mikuni, from 4: Sept. 1833 - Oct 10: 1834
Dead. On Lipa, Nov. 29. 1836
Date of death not on A. B.

Virginia Franklin County Set On this 5 th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open court before the County Court of Franklin now sitting Matthew Far- mer , residents of Franklin County & State of Virginia aged by his register, 71 years born in Charlotte County Va who lived in Halifax Va during the Revolutionary war and has since moved to Frank- lin VA who being first duly sworn according to law - doth on his oath make the following declara- -tion in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Con- gress passed 7 th June 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as is herein stated That in 1780 he was drafted into a company in Halifax Coun- ty Va where he then lived - commanded by Capt Joshua Powell - and marched to Portsmouth Va where he served three months, and was then discharged - his discharge he has long since lost, At Portsmouth he was attached to a regiment commanded by Colo Fleming Genl Murling being commanded the troops at Portsmouth during this tour this applicant served as orderly Sergeant  - In 1783 this applicant was called out and marched in a company commanded by Capt Fleming Bates from Halifax to York Town and was a soldier - in the seige of York - he was attached to the regiment commanded by the brave Colo Holt Richardson - he also assisted in taking the British prisoners to Howells Ferry - on the Maryland line - after which he was dischar- ged having been in service upwards of six months his discharge he has lost - for proof of the

mentioned hours he refers to the evidence of Ensign Jas Bates here exhibited - and This appli- cant is well acquainted with Thomas Brown Esq r of Halifax member of Congress and Nathl Blackborne member of Congress from this District - and refers to them for - his general character. He has no docu- mentary evidence. He says that the whole time he was in service was upwards of six months as he firmly believes. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity etc at the present, and declares that his name - is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid Matthew Farmer
We John M Holland a citizen of Franklin 2 nd & John Ziegler - residing in same county & State, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Matthew Farmer who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of his age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion - Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid
John M Holland John Ziegler

Matthew Farmer
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for 1780 print Six months, 3m a head 3mo a lot. $25.
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BRIEF in the case of Matthew Harper of Murkin Co in the State of Tenn (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     drift? In 1780 # 3 Sergt. Capt Joshua Powell,   1781 upwards of " 6 — pr. Stemning Dats  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Siege of York  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Halifax Co. Va  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary — Wm Faulkner says that he served in 1781 3 mo.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Compl 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W.H.G.
Examining Clerk.
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County of St Charles & St. This day personally appeared State of Mississippi before me Edward Barnes of the said county and State and made oath that the person, Matthew Farmer, who has taken the above affidavit, in order to procure the transfer of a Power, is the very identical person he knows to be in the same affair. Subscribed & sworn to this Edward Barnes 5 th day of June 1834
Thos C Balle J.P. For Dist. Ct. of St. Charles
I Thos C Balle Justice of the peace within and for the Township of Granden & County of St Charles State of Mississippi; Do hereby certify that Edward Barnes is a person entitled to full credit as a man of truth and veracity given under my hand this the 5 th day of June 1834. Thos C Balle J.P. of Dist. Ct. St. Charles State of Mississippi
State of Mississippi & St. Charles County of St. Charles to William Sweet clerk of the county court within & for the county aforesaid, certify that Thos. C. Balle Esquire whose signature is to the foregoing Certificate is now & was at the time of subscribing the same a Justice of the Peace within for the county aforesaid. duly sworn before me & qualified as appears by his commission & qualification of record in my office - To whose official acts as such full faith & credit are & ought to be given - My Testimony whereof I have here unto affixed the seal of said court V. V. W. G. Mitchell W. D.

Application for the Transfer of a Pension
County of St Charles } Is On this the 3 day of June State of Mississippi } 1834 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the peace for the said County of St Charles personally appeared Matthew Farmer, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Joshua Powell in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Fleming in the service of the United States; That his name was placed on the Pension roll of the State of Virginia from whence he has lately moved; That he now resides in the State of Mississippi, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be then payable in future. The following are his reasons for removing from the State of Virginia to the State of Mississippi. He hoped when he moved to better his situation in life in this particular at least, to get good Land & more of it, and as he was now very old to be the better able to use easer and make more with less labor.
Matthew Farmer
I was and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid
Thos. B. Ball Justice of the Peace for the County of St Charles.

December 18, 1933
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BA-J/EEL Matthew Farmer-S.16790 aw
Mrs. George W. McElhinney 12th and Jefferson Streets Saint Charles, Missouri
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request a copy of the pension record of Matthew Farmer, a soldier of the Revolutionary War, who served from Virginia.
A very careful examination has been made of the papers in pension claim, S.16790, based upon the military service in the Revolutionary War of Matthew Farmer, and his history as obtained from the data in said claim is furnished below.
Matthew Farmer was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia. The date of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.
While residing in Halifax County, Virginia, he enlisted sometime in 1780, and served three months as orderly sergeant in Captain Joshua Powell's Company, Colonel Fleming's Virginia Regiment: he again enlisted in 1781, and served three months in Captain Fleming Bates' Company, Colonel Holt Richardson's Virginia Regiment: he was at the siege of Yorktown, after which he assisted in taking the prisoners to Newland's Ferry on the Potomac River.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 5, 1833, at which time he was aged seventy-one years and resided in Franklin County, Virginia, to which county he had moved after the Revolutionary War. In 1834, he had moved to Saint Charles County, Missouri.
There are no data as to wife and children.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revo-

lutionary War pensioner, Matthew Farmer(S.16790), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data:
Matthew Framer, Certificate No. 2841, issued December 7, 1832, rate $25 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Missouri Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.

16790 INVALID.
File No. 16790
Matthew Thamer
Sergt Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 121
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1909 July 14. Hist. to Mrs. Jennie C. L. Forristell for tombstone inquiry in S.F. 17086. P 1933 - Dec 18 - Hist. to Mrs. Leo A. McElhiney - Elt

Bill
Wm H Ashley Esq. U.S.C.
Columbus Bread & Butter City St Louis Mo

Sub W m Hasley
July 27 th 1824
Dr. Sir On reading the within enclosed papers you will discover their purport: Mr. Farmer has been referred to you by Mr. Clabourn Bishop C. of the La a delegation in Congress to have the payment of his pension transferred to St. Louis & he intends in future to draw it through Mr. Hasley. I have given an additional assurance, to that of Mr. Clabourn, that your services will promptly be applied to effect Mr. F's object. The attention once given necessary on your part will be gratefully acknowledged by Mr. F. - I am very respectfully Yours H. H. B. Ball.

Virginia
Mathew Farmer
2841
Tranbu
Rev? Oct 6 th 1834

Free Trade Monday
Edward G. Bumpous of Pensions Washington City

Columbia Mo Sept 21 58
Hon. W. H. Ashley

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J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Office Bank United States Richmond 8. October 1834.
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 6 th inst. addressed to the President of this Office, and in reply to it I have to inform you, that Mathew Farmer, Private and Sergt. - a pensioner on the Roll of this Agency, was paid up to the 4 th Septem r . 1833. —
Very respectfully Y s , J. Robertson Com r
J. L. Edwards, Esq. Comm r of Pensions.

Columbia Sept 16 th 1834
Sir,
You will greatly oblige me, as well as the person more immediately interested, by attending to the enclosed application without delay. see that notice of Mr Harvells transfer from the Payroll of Virginia to that of Missouri may reach me before I set out for Washington about the 20 th of October —
With great Respect I am Sir yr obedt
J. B. Ashley
J. C. Edwards Esq Committee of Pensions Washington

May 4 th Farmers
Section

And the said Court doth hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrog- atories presented by the War Department, the within named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, - And the Court doth further certify that John M Holland and John Zeigler who have signed the preceding Certificate are citizens of the said County and are credible persons, (there being no clergymen present), and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Virginia to wit,
I Caleb Tate clerk of Franklin County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Matthew Farmer for a pension on testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court the 21 st day of November 1832 in the 57 th year of our foundation Caleb Tate clk

Pension Agency, 10 David St., November 14. 1836.
Sir
I transmit for examination the papers of the following pensioners, whose claims are unpaid for five years, viz: John Roberts and Matthew Farmer, both deceased; James Kelly, Rhodam Sims & Anderson Long.
Very respectfully Your ob. servt.
Wm. C. Anderson
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com te Pensions, City of Washington

Virginia, Halifax County to Wit - Ensign James Daley, who acted in that capacity in the Revolutionary war this day came before me one of the Commonwealth Justices of the Peace for the County, aforesaid & made Oath, that in the Year 1781 Matthew Farmer, then of the County, served a Tour of duty for 3 months and was at the Siege of York & was in the same Company with himself, that after Wallcutt surrendered the said Farmer assisted 16 days to carry the British prisoners to Nolans Ferry on the Potomac & Major Wood Jones allowed 18 days for us to come home with the Sick Soldiers waggons &c and against the Col o Holt Richerson agreed that our marching the British to Maryland would entitle us to a Second tour of duty & his Affiant further saith on Oath that he conceives the said Farmer to be entitled to two tours or six months service in the revolutionary war - this Affiant further States that the said Farmer (as he was told by his brothers) served a tour of three months before the above service with them which he verily believes to be the truth Given under my hand & Seal the 23 rd September 1832
W m Faulkner { Seal }
Virginia - Halifax County, to wit:
I Samuel Williams clerk of the County Court of said County do hereby certify that W m Faulkner whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is a Justice of the Peace for said County - Given under my hand this 23 rd day of Septem: 1832
Sam d Williams

November 24th, 1933.
Department of the Interior, Rev. War Section, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
Please send me a copy of the Pension of the Revolutionary Soldier, MATHEW FARMER , who died in St. Charles County, Missouri after 1835. The following nota- tion was found in Census of Pensions State of Missouri, 1822-1835:
St. Charles County:
MATTHEW FARMER, VA. MILITIA.
This record is requested so that the name of Matthew Farmer may be added to the list, which is being earnestly compiled, of Revolutionary Soldiers who lived in St. Charles County. The names of the soldiers family and the date of his birth and death are particularly desired.
Thanking you for your kind attention to my request, I am,
Yours sincerely,
Mary J. McElhiney
Historian, St. Charles Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.
Address:
Mrs. George W. McElhiney, Sixth & Jefferson Sts., Saint Charles, Missouri.

In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of Matthew Farmer a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. File 16,790
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1780 3 mos. Orderly Sgt. Joshua Powell Fleming Va.   1781 3 mos. ✓ Fleming Bates Holt Richardson "  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Halifax Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Nov. 5 1832.
Residence at date of application, Franklin Co. Va.
Age at date of application, 71
Remarks: 1834 St. Charles Co. Mo.
Tombstone possesses only.